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Precious metals

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• Metals
• Mines and mineral resources

• Precious metals -- Metallurgy
• Gold
• Silver

• Bullion
• Noble metals

• An Essay on Money & Bullion, by T. Joplin (text at McMaster)
• An Essay on Money and Bullion (London: Printed for B. Lintot, 1718), by J. Jocelyn (PDF at McMaster)
• The Natural History, Ancient and Modern, of Precious Stones and Gems, and of the Precious Metals (London: Bell and Daldy; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co., 1865), by C. W. King (multiple formats at Google)
• The Natural History of the Precious Stones and of the Precious Metals (London: Bell and Daldy; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co.,, 1867), by C. W. King (multiple formats at Google)

• Methods for the Recovery of Platinum, Iridium, Palladium, Gold, and Silver from Jewelers' Waste (US Bureau of Mines technical paper #342; Washington: GPO, 1924), by Charles Wesley Davis
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Gold Bulletin (issues open access from 1971-2015) (partial serial archives)

• Recovery of Lithium From Clay by Selective Chlorination (report of investigations 8523; Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1981), by C. F. Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Water Chlorine (Residual) No. 1, Study Number 35: Report of a Study Conducted by Analytical Reference Service (Cincinnati: U.S. Public Health Service, Consumer Protection and Environmental Health Service, Environmental Control Administration, 1969), by Raymond J. Lishka, Earl F. McFarren, and J. H. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Radiochemistry of Gold (1961), by J. F. Emery and G. W. Leddicote (page images at LANL)
• Three Letters on the Price of Gold: Contributed to the Morning Chronicle (London) in August-November, 1809 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1903), by David Ricardo (page images at Google; US access only)
• Geld und Gold: Ökonomische Theorie des Geldes (in German; Stuttgart and Berlin: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1916), by Robert Liefmann
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• French Financial Policy (Foreign Policy Reports v8 #20; 1932), by John C. De Wilde (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Methods for the Recovery of Platinum, Iridium, Palladium, Gold, and Silver from Jewelers' Waste (US Bureau of Mines technical paper #342; Washington: GPO, 1924), by Charles Wesley Davis
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Gold Bulletin (issues open access from 1971-2015) (partial serial archives)

• The Lake of Gold: A Narrative of the Anglo-American Conquest of Europe (London: F. V. White, 1903), by George Chetwynd Griffith
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Gold Bulletin (issues open access from 1971-2015) (partial serial archives)

• Gold Bulletin (issues open access from 1971-2015) (partial serial archives)

• The Case for Gold: A Minority Report of the U.S. Gold Commission (1982), by Ron Paul and Lewis E. Lehrman (PDF at mises.org)
• Gold, Peace, and Prosperity: The Birth of a New Currency (1981), by Ron Paul (PDF at mises.org)
• The Case for the 100 Percent Gold Dollar (1991), by Murray N. Rothbard (HTML and PDF at mises.org)
• The Gold Standard Versus "A Managed Currency", With Some Observations on the Quantity Theory of Money (published as a number of the Chase Economic Bulletin, 1925), by Benjamin M. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in Persuasion (1931), by John Maynard Keynes (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• The Atom Spies (New York: G. P. Putnam and Sons, 1952), by Oliver Pilat (page images at HathiTrust)

• Extraction of Silver From Refractory Ores (report of investigations 7736; Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1973), by Bernard J. Scheiner, D. L. Pool, J. J. Sjoberg, and R. E. Lindstrom (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Radiochemistry of Silver (1961), by Duane Neuman Sunderman and Charles William Townley
  • PDF at osti.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Methods for the Recovery of Platinum, Iridium, Palladium, Gold, and Silver from Jewelers' Waste (US Bureau of Mines technical paper #342; Washington: GPO, 1924), by Charles Wesley Davis
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Transport, Fate, and Effects of Silver in the Environment (6 volumes; 1993-1999) (full serial archives)

• Argyria: The Pharmacology of Silver (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Co., 1939), by William Robinson Hill and Donald M. Pillsbury (page images at HathiTrust)

• Transport, Fate, and Effects of Silver in the Environment (6 volumes; 1993-1999) (full serial archives)

• Argyria: The Pharmacology of Silver (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Co., 1939), by William Robinson Hill and Donald M. Pillsbury (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Alington Inheritance (author died in 1961; c1958), by Patricia Wentworth (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Fingerprint (author died in 1961; c1956), by Patricia Wentworth (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Silent Pool (author died in 1961; c1954), by Patricia Wentworth (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Brading Collection (author died in 1961; c1950), by Patricia Wentworth (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Catherine-Wheel (author died in 1961; c1949), by Patricia Wentworth (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Clock Strikes Twelve (author died in 1961; c1944), by Patricia Wentworth (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Key (author died in 1961; c1944), by Patricia Wentworth (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Case is Closed (author died in 1961; c1937), by Patricia Wentworth (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Selected Values of Thermodynamic Properties of Metals and Alloys (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, c1963), by Ralph Hultgren, Raymond L. Orr, Philip D. Anderson, and K. K. Kelley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Engineering Materials and Processes (third edition; Scranton: International Textbook Co., 1959), by Donald S. Clark, contrib. by William Howard Clapp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Metals and Their Chief Industrial Applications: Being, with Some Considerable Applications, the Substance of a Course of Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institute of Great Britain in 1877 (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878), by C. R. Alder Wright (page images at HathiTrust)

• Colorimetric Determination of Traces of Metals (New York: Interscience Publishers, 1944), by E. B. Sandell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Digest of Steels for High Temperature Service (sixth edition; 1957), by Timken Roller Bearing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Digest of Steels for High Temperature Service (fifth edition; 1946), by Timken Roller Bearing Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Theory for the Effect of Mean Stress on Fatigue of Metals Under Combined Torsion and Axial Load or Bending (1958), by William N. Findley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fatigue and Stress Rupture Properties of Inconel 713C, V-57C and Titanium Alloys 7A1-3Mo-Ti and MST 821 (8A1-2Cb-1Ta-Ti) (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio: Wright Air Development Division, Air Research and Development Command, U. S. Air Force, 1960), by A. E. Cers and A. A. Blatherwick (page images at HathiTrust)

• Acta Metallurgica (partial serial archives)

• A Theory for the Effect of Mean Stress on Fatigue of Metals Under Combined Torsion and Axial Load or Bending (1958), by William N. Findley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Selected Values of Thermodynamic Properties of Metals and Alloys (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, c1963), by Ralph Hultgren, Raymond L. Orr, Philip D. Anderson, and K. K. Kelley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Radiochemistry of Bismuth (1977), by Kashinath S. Bhakti (page images at LANL)

• Prevention of Material Deterioration: Corrosion Control Course (U.S. Army Corrosion Control, 1986), by United States Army Armament, Munitions and Chemical Command (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.